Mediation Collapses Between Meta And Kenyan Content Moderators
Settlement talks have collapsed between Facebook's parent company Meta and Kenyan content moderators over a lawsuit alleging unfair dismissal, a tech rights group working with the moderators said on Monday.
The 184 moderators sued Meta and two subcontractors earlier this year after they say they lost their jobs with one of the subcontractors, Sama, for organising a union.
They say they were then blacklisted from applying for the same roles at a second firm, Majorel, after Facebook changed contractors.
In August, the court asked the parties to hold out-of-court settlement talks and said the case would proceed before it if those failed.
British tech rights group Foxglove said in a statement on Monday that the negotiations had broken down, accusing Meta and Sama of making "very little att...